Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957. Bin Laden's father was always strict, but after his mother and father's divorce he wasn't around his father very much. He was a very outstanding student and was invited to a small Islamic study group. After a while, the group lost its original focus and Osama had started learning the principles of violent jihad. At the age of 18 he married his first cousin, 14-year-old Najwa Ghanem. Osama joined the Afghan resistance when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. By 1993 he formed the secret network of al-Qaeda. In 1994 the Saudi government took away his citizenship, and his parents disowned him. In 1996, he set off truck bombs of the U.S. occupied forces in Saudi Arabia, and was exiled from Saudi Arabia In 1998 he killed nearly 300 people by bombing U.S. embassies in Kenya, Tanzania, and Nairobi. He stayed in Afghanistan, and was protected by the Taliban. While protected, he declared a holy war against the U.S. On September 11, 2011, a small group of Osama's Al Qaeda jihadists hijacked four commercial passenger aircraft in the United States. Two collided into the World Trade Center towers. Another aircraft crashed into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Osama went into hiding for ten years. In 2004 he released a video taking blame for 9/11. On May 1, he was shot several times at a terrorist compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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